Passwd --stdin pipe

[Bob Gorman]

At 12:10 PM 3/24/2004, Jeff Graves wrote:
>I'm trying to use the passwd --stdin option to pipe a plain text
>password through passwd so it gets encrypted and set properly (since
>this is my first attempt at writing shell scripts and whatnot). Just for
>testing, I'm running this code at the command line. This is the syntax
>I'm using:
>
>echo password | passwd --stdin username

Try:

  echo -n password | passwd --stdin username


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